This is an analysis of To Linger In A Garden Fair by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.
MIRTH, Spring, to linger in a garden fair,
What more has earth to give? All ye that wait,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcac dXdefdf cecebXb aeXecXc
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,
- Metre: 10101000101 1111011111 1001100101 11010100101 1011010101 1101010101 1100010001 1101110101 1101101101 1111111111 1001110101 1101111101 1101010111 1111011111 0101010101 0111100101 11110000101 1111001101 11010101001 11011101010 0111011101 1101110111 1101110101 11010100100 1101001100 0101110101 1101110101 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
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